That only can with propriety be styled refinement which, by strengthening the intellect, purifies the manners.

And they three passed over the white sands, between the rocks, silent as the shadows.

Poetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood.

Until you understand a writer's ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.

How inimitably graceful children are in general-before they learn to dance.

This is the course of every evil deed, that, propagating still it brings forth evil.

How wonderfully beautiful is the delineation of the characters of the three patriarchs in Genesis! To be sure if ever man could, without impropriety, be called, or supposed to be, "the friend of God," Abraham was that man. We are not surprised that Abimelech and Ephron seem to reverence him so profoundly. He was peaceful, because of his conscious relation to God.